Pair of studies outline innovations that will improve coordination of traffic patterns and save fuel New driverless car technologies developed at a University of Delaware lab could lead to a... Read more

UD team’s finding could be ‘just what the doctor ordered’ for Planet Earth The chunk of metal sitting on a table in Joel Rosenthal’s office at the University of Delaware looks like it should... Read more

Engineers control cellular proteins with biological computing DNA has an important job—it tells your cells which proteins to make. Now, a research team at the University of Delaware has deve... Read more

New type of smart windows use liquid to switch from clear to reflective Researchers have demonstrated prototype windows that switch from reflective to clear with the simple addition of a liq... Read more

University of Delaware researcher teams with high school student on discovery that injured plants send off chemical warnings When Harsh Bais, a botanist at the University of Delaware, emaile... Read more

Researchers invent process to make sustainable rubber, plastics Synthetic rubber and plastics – used for manufacturing tires, toys and myriad other products – are produced from butadiene, a... Read more

A team of researchers, led by the University of Minnesota, has invented a new soap molecule made from renewable sources that could dramatically reduce the number of chemicals in cleaning pro... Read more

More than 70 percent of the Earth’s surface is covered by water, yet scientists know more about space than about what happens in the ocean. One way scientists are trying to improve their und... Read more

Yan research team reports success with low-cost nickel-based catalyst Planes, Trains and Automobiles is a popular comedy from the 1980s, but there’s nothing funny about the amount of energy... Read more

Nanotechnology offers new approach to increasing storage ability of dielectric capacitors For Back to the Future fans, this week marked a milestone that took three decades to reach. Oct. 21,... Read more

Article in journal Science outlines threats to soil productivity A group of leading soil scientists, including the University of Delaware’s Donald L. Sparks, has summarized the precarious st... Read more